Listeners Invest $500,000 in Startups on The Pitch

4 Companies Funded + Saucy News

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Lisa Muccio
May 19, 2023

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Episode Drop

Listen to the Season Finale: Your AI Pitch Coach! And turn on notifications in your podcast app so you don’t miss our return in August.

#114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach

Co-founders Kelvin Johnson and Max Huc know first impressions are everything. That’s why they created Brevity, an AI powered software to help craft a per…

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Vol. 1 Issue 17

We did it! Season 9 is complete! This season we covered a lot of territory…

Plus, through The Pitch Fund and syndicate you all invested half a million dollars into 4 companies on season 9 of The Pitch. I’d say it was a smashing success!

Saucy things are popping up in the news…

Kraft Heinz unveils customizable sauce dispenser with more than 200 condiment combos for restaurants

Kraft Heinz hopes to learn what new sauces it should launch in grocery stores based on data from the digital condiment dispenser.

www.cnbc.com

Heinz did it. They made a sauce machine. Just like Jillian said in episode 103. Good thing AWSM Sauce pivoted. See the short clip here where AWSM Sauce pitched their sauce machine on the show.

And in episode 110 Charles Hudson warned us of bad startup accelerators. Now, Newchip is causing a commotion as they file for bankruptcy and founders speak out against their questionable activity.

To glean more wisdom from Charles check out this great read:

Finding the Right Burn Rate for Pre-Seed Companies - The Relationship Between Burn Rate and Graduation Rate for Our First 150 Pre-Seed Investments

We took a look at the data from our first 150 pre-seed investments to get a sense for the relationship between monthly burn rate and the likelihood that a company will graduate to the seed round.

chudson.substack.com

Survey Says…!

It’s that time where we ask you lovely listeners to fill out a survey. So we can fund your favorite podcast about funding.

Thank You

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